Baptized people need to get to know the gospel that Christ died and resurrected for them.
Not exact matches
But it is equally offensive to Buddhists, Muslims, and to all other
people of faith, including Christians who have already been
baptized and don't believe they
need that sacrament / ordinance again, especially after death.
When
people want be
baptized «in the right way,» they argue about when baptism should take place, how much water is necessary, where the baptism can occur, who can perform the baptism, what actions should be performed during the baptism, and what words
need to be said along with the baptism.
One example: The head «elder» at a church we attended at one time told me I
needed to be rebaptized (they counted how many
people got
baptized every year for some report or the other), and that I
needed to submit to his authority.
So when Jesus says that we must be born of Water and Spirit, and if you believe and are
baptized you will be saved, I agree with you that in a strict sense God does the saving and we
need only immerse (
baptize) ourselves in the grace he offers us, I believe that the statement Jesus made about marriage to be applicable, «Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate» and echo Peter's rhetorical question, «Can anyone keep these
people from being
baptized with water?
Of course, any
person, which wants to get
baptized,
needs some pastoral care before.
In order to testify of His marvelous saliatvon we can be
baptized into His wonderful name!This is the gospel we
need to share with the
people we come in contact with in our daily life.
What really shocked
people was the statement that all
baptized Christians were «priests»; they
needed a licence from the community to act liturgically but nothing more.